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Show 1867.] MR. G. R. CROTCH ON AZOREAN COLEOPTERA. 363 (6) Species found in water. These are very few in these islands ; why, it is difficult to say; but with the exception of one Agabus, which may be new, all are the most ordinary European forms. The three new to the Atlantic fauna are probably introduced. Hydroporus planus. Philhydrus lividus. Colymbetes pulverosus. (7) Species introduced with garden plants, &c, about cultivated ground. Melanotus dichrous 1 A thous obsoletusl Ceuthorhynchus nigrotermi-natus. Hypera variabilis. Otiorhynchus scabrosus. sulcatus. Sitonesflavescens. • lineatus. • gressorius. Bruchus pisi. Psylliodes chrysocephala. Haltica ampelophaga. (8) Of the eighty-six European species remaining, the following fourteen are probably mere recent introductions :- Calathus mollis. Bradycellus distinctus. Phalacrus coruscus. - consimilis. Nitidula obsoleta. Anthrenus varius. Saprinus ceerulescens. Saprinus semistriatus. Ptilinus pectinicornis. Tomicus saxeseni. Hypoborus ficus. Coccinella 7-punctata. Chilocorus bipustulatus. Scytnnus minimus. (9) Sixteen species remain, now brought forward as new to the Atlantic fauna, concerning whose origin I am not able to offer any conjecture:- Licinus brevicollis. Anchomenus parum punctatus. Pterostichus vernalis. Harpalus ruficornis. griseus. Stenolophus brunnipes. luridus. Meligethcs incanus. Psammodius plicicollis. Dolichosomus nobilis. Mesites tardii. Coccinella 11-punctata. Lithocharis ripicola. apicalis. Coxyincfionnxxssublcevipennis. Trogophlceus subtilis. (10) M. Drouet enumerates a few species which have escaped Mr. Godman, but which he appears to have found in some numbers: Calathus flavipes. Anobium tomentosum. Saprinus rugifrons. Xantholinus glabratus. Coccinella variabilis. (11) We then get the following thirty-two as being found in the three xltlantic groups and South Europe, and representin°- perhaps the remains of a common fauna :- Dromius maurus. Anchomenus albipes. Pristonychus complanatus. - - marginatus. |